Pregnancy Retreat for Couples: A Song for Your Baby

A one-of-a-kind voice retreat for pregnant women and their partners. Join us as a couple for a deeply nourishing day of singing, vocal creativity, and connection. Enjoy quality time together to deepen the bond between you and with your child, and come away with a co-created song for your baby.

No songwriting experience or musical training necessary, and all singing abilities are welcome.

(This retreat is for couples to enjoy together. However, if you’re a pregnant woman who wishes or needs to attend on your own, you’re welcome to come to our pregnant women-only retreat.)

Agustina Plos & Danielle Style’s offering at 2pm to 6pm on Sunday 11th October

• Investment: £173.50

Bookings for this event are made directly with the facilitators. Book your couples ticket here.

If you would like to access the Women Supporting Women Fund to subsidise this event, find more details here.

Connect with your baby through the power of song

Experience the power of your own voice to self-soothe, and to comfort and connect with the incredible being that’s growing inside your/your partner’s womb.

Women’s experience of pregnancy can be dominated by tests, scans, and waiting on tenterhooks for results. Although tests and scans can give us useful information, they can also leave us feeling anxious, disembodied, and disconnected.

As incredible as it is to see a real-time image of your baby via ultrasound, our focus on screens can make us lose sight of the way pregnant women and fathers-to-be have connected with their babies and their own sense of safety for millennia. That is, through their own bodies.

This day retreat is all about remembering your power to experience a unique and intimate relationship with your child in the womb. And yes – even though the non-pregnant partner isn’t physically carrying the baby, the potential is there for them to begin to connect with their child before the birth too.

By slowing down, becoming embodied, and exploring your voice in creative yet accessible ways, you can both become more present with your baby as well as your true selves. That’s what this retreat is designed for.

You’ll also discover your innate ability to make up songs to express love and care for your child – even if neither of you think of yourselves as ‘a singer’ and you’ve never tried to write a song before!

Co-create a song for your baby

During the retreat, you’ll work together – first generating ideas as a couple, and then combining them as a group – to create a simple song to soothe your child. The group will co-create one song for everyone, drawing on different participants’ ideas, which we’ll generate through journalling and vocal improvisation.

Anyone who enjoys singing can take part

You might be thinking, ‘but we’re not songwriters!’ or ‘neither of us have improvised music before!’ Please know that it’s a myth that vocal creativity and improvisation are just for trained and experienced musicians. In fact, everyone who enjoys singing can experience the joy of these in accessible ways.

On the day, you’ll both be given the option to explore vocal improvisation by making up very simple musical phrases of just a few notes. Through a step-by-step process, you’ll learn how words can be woven with rhythm and the notes you improvise to create the lines of a song.

The song we’ll create together will be something you can both start singing to your baby straight away, as they’ll begin to hear your voices well before they are born. Continuing to sing the same song to your child after birth can be a powerful way of soothing them, by reminding them of the comfort and safety of the womb.

Choose how you’ll participate

Our aim as your facilitators is to create a safe space where you feel free to take part in the day’s activities at the level you feel comfortable with. If you or your partner is shy or nervous you can choose to sing only in ways that blend in, or at any time simply listen.

On this day retreat, you will:

• Deepen your connection with each other and with your child in the womb – through guided meditation, journalling and song
• Experience the benefits of singing during pregnancy and learn how it can be used during labour – for lowering stress, processing emotions, self-soothing, soothing your partner, and soothing your baby
• Explore your creative voices through accessible improvisation in a safe, welcoming circle
• Co-create a song, and learn a process you can use in your own time to create your own
• Connect with like-minded pregnant women and fathers-to-be in community
• Celebrate your pregnancy, and rediscover the joy, vitality, and ease that’s available to you as a pregnant woman/expectant partner

What to bring:

• Comfy clothes that allow freedom of movement
• A journal and a pen
• A bottle of water

NB Herbal teas and snacks will be provided.

We (Agustina and Danielle) look forward to welcoming you into our couples’ singing circle! If you have any questions in the meantime, please reach out to us.

FAQs

Do we have to be singers to take part in this day retreat?

No, neither you nor your partner have to have done any musical training or even sing regularly. All the techniques we’ll be using will be broken down, taught step-by-step and by ear.

Is this for all trimesters of pregnancy?

Yes, absolutely! This retreat is about deepening your connection with the being that’s growing inside your/your partner’s womb, no matter what stage of the pregnancy you’re in.